Changing It Up a Bit

10/23/2018

After taking a break, we are back to posting...be patient...still learning how to blog efficiently!

Massachusetts! What a wonderful state to visit, especially this time of year. I don’t mean for the leaves, because unlike Maine, the l...

01/28/2018

Days 2 & 3 of Changing It Up a Bit...
Because we were in search of some new rugs for our coach, we went to a really little town called Oatman, at the recommendation of some friends. Oatman is located just 25 miles southeast of Bullhead City and is a VERY unique village of gift and antique stores, as well as several saloons and restaurants. Wild burros wander the street and there are shootouts on the street on the weekends. On the way into town, scraggley bushes were decorated here and there with Christmas decorations.
Interesting, huh? Not sure of the history of this quirky tradition. Just before we reached the town, there was the annual bed race...glad we missed that one! The town was very run down and the roads were rough. We quickly found what we were looking for, purchased them and headed for the truck...stopping to take a few pics and get safely into the truck before the burros got too curious about Emjai. Today, we dressed for the wind...hair tucked up in a baseball cap...(just mine, Jeff doesn't need one!) and headed into Laughlin...just across the bridge from Bullhead City. It is one of Nevada's premier gambling centers, but we went for the River Walk next to the Colorado River. Quite beautiful! Just a note about the weather here...it is super windy. When we went to bed the last two nights, it sounded like the grouse (native little goofy looking bird that has this little feather sticking up over it's head and runs around all over the place here)...well, like they were running over the top of our RV. Jeff went to sleep easily, but I was annoyed with the noise and decided to investigate and think about it. Just short of getting dressed, going outside and climbing the ladder to see what was going on up there, I recalled someone telling us a few months back about the awnings that we had installed over our slide-outs. The wind was so strong that it was causing them to slap around so crazily that they sounded like critters. When Jeff woke up in the morning, I told him what it was and told him that the man had suggested that we put either a slightly inflated beach ball between the awning and roof of the slide or some of the floating noodles that are used in the pool. He was dressed quickly (even though I never asked him to) and went out there and solved the problem! He's my hero!

01/27/2018

First day on the road to Laughlin/Bullhead City.

01/27/2018

First short day on the road was nice. We felt the freedom that we had been hoping that we would feel when embarking on this adventure. After bidding our friends farewell at the Las Vegas RV Resort around noon, we made the trip south to Bullhead City/Laughlin to call Ridgeview RV Resort home for the weekend...only about 2 hours while pulling our house behind! Funny, someone asked me the day before "are you all packed"...we don't pack...we just put things away and shut the door. It is the most fantastic way to travel. Jeff takes care of everything outside and I do everything inside. We have found that we like to clean the house all up before we go...that allows us to open up when we get to where we are going, set up and we are quickly free to go see our new town! Works for us! As soon as we backed into our spot, we were greeted by neighbors admiring our 5er and inviting us to their place for dinner.
They were done with dinner by the time we finished setting up
and because it was such a long day, Jeff took me to dinner at Black Bear Diner...food was good and we headed back "home"...that is wherever we want it to be. Life is good.

01/26/2018

Well folks, it has FINALLY arrived! The day we hit the road running (driving)! We will be leaving Las Vegas in just a few hours and returning here is indefinite. Our first stop is just a short trip of 90 miles to Laughlin, NV / Bullhead City, AZ. Laughlin is bordered on one side by beautiful mountains and on the other by the Colorado River. Kinda like Vegas, only on a smaller scale. We are there 3 days then moving on to Yuma, AZ...anyone want to take the 3:10 and meet us there? We are there until the middle of February, then on to Tucson, AZ where we will reconnect with friends that we met last fall while there. Since we are coming up to our first year with the coach, we will have a few warranty issue looked at Lazy Day RV and then we are off to Kerrville, TX. We love Texas and are looking forward to the hill country there to continue our museum trip that we started last fall. (More on that later.) At the end of March, we head further south to the coast, and will settle for a while in the Corpus Christi and South Padre Island area. Come along for the ride...😏

01/21/2018

If we must, lol!

12/31/2017

This is the recipe I use for Apple Hand Pies. The brown-eyed baker and I have something in common! Brown Eyes and we love sweets!

Apple Hand Pies - An amazing flaky pastry crust is filled with an apple and cinnamon filling. DELICIOUS and the perfect portable dessert!

12/31/2017

As we enter the new year, I am going to help us to be more conscious about our sweet intake. Let's face it, it is very hard to just go cold turkey. So I have decided to make hand pies...little hand sized pies...just to give our sweet tooth a little at a time. You don't need to make a whole pie and hurry to eat it before it goes bad or just having it sit on the counter calling your name. These pies are great to make, freeze then take out one or two at a time and pair with a small scoop of ice cream or just by itself for breakfast. Below is the recipe I use for blueberry. In an effort to get them done faster and be done...I have used Pillsbury Ready Made Pie Crusts. You can use Filo Dough, as well. Watch for the recipe for Apple and Cherry hand pies to come! The recipes are perfect! Don't try to reinvent the wheel!

Get Blueberry Hand Pies Recipe from Food Network

12/11/2017

Hi there! Jeff and I are combining our fb lives into one page in order to simplify things a bit more. Once we get our photos transferred into this new page...the other fb pages will magically disappear. We hope that you will "like" and "follow" this new page as we set out on our RVing journey in 2018 with a new set of directions! We welcome questions from any of you regarding our RV lifestyle. Although we aren't the experts quite yet, we have definitely learned a ton of hacks and helpful hints to help make starting an RV lifestyle much easier and avoid pitfalls in deciding which style of RV to purchase.